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Mar 15, 2014
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bee's wing
Although the lyric is bee's wing, the title is beeswing. I puzzled over this (certainly RT didn't mean 'bee swing'). There seems to be a clue in the song’s references to drinking, physical decline and this entry for beeswing in Wikipedia, “a filmy translucent crust found in port and other old wines which have been bottle-aged for a long time.†For me, this adds poignancy. A word/phrase doing double duty – at least.